Today we are going to Salute Our Heroes. With the Memorial Day Holiday now upon us, I really want to encourage all my readers to take some time out to really remember what our Men and Women in uniform do for each of us and the price they pay daily for you and I.
Please take a few minutes to reflect on the message in the Video.

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As we all Celebrate The Memorial Day Holiday, please keep in mind our Veterans who have given so much for each of us. Enjoy your holiday.

ON MEMORIAL DAY WE HONOR OUR VETERANS

It is the VETERAN, not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.

It is the VETERAN, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.

It is the VETERAN, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

It is the VETERAN, not the community organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.

It is the VETERAN, not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.

It is the VETERAN, not the politician, who has given us the right to vote.

It is the VETERAN who salutes the Flag,

It is the VETERAN who serves under the Flag,

ETERNAL REST GRANT THEM O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM. GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Here’s a great article written by Paul Melendez entitled:  Five Essential Things You Need To Succeed In Internet Marketing!

The thought of being simple passengers on a ghost ship meant to sail at random to just anywhere does not appeal to ambitious people who like to take charge of their own destiny and keep their future and fate in their own hands.

Ambitious folks have a drive to maneuver their own ships with purpose and intent; they want to be the ones to take their ship anyplace they want. Being aboard a ship on its way to a particularly great destination (like massive online success) is something each and every one of them dreams about, and the knowledge that they have the mental ability and attitude to steer it themselves is what makes them actually want to do it.

Possibly this is the reason why more and more people are succumbing to one of the most popular businesses in the world: Internet Marketing!

There’s plenty of opportunity! You only needs to be fitted out with the tools needed to succeed in a business such as this, and you are likely to get what your heart finally desires.

Just what are the things needed to be able to win in internet marketing?

There are five things one must ultimately have if you want to achieve the success you are longing for in this business, and these five things are a must for you to possess in order to be able to stand out among the rest …and, most importantly…  have a thriving and profitable online business.

1) Mentoring: It means a willingness to study and be trained. Stepping through unfamiliar territory is chilling stuff if you are not properly equipped, and you might get lost amidst a jungle of the unknown.

Learning the tricks of the trade is also a crucial aspect of the game, and your willingness to know it all will give you far greater advantages in this business than you could ever imagine.

2) Commit time and effort: No matter if direct results do not seem at all apparent. While several months may pass by without good news, it is crucial for a newbie – who has just stepped into the industry – to hang in and wait for success.

Keep in mind that you have to be doing all the right stuff – but, it’s not rocket science. It is this quality which would save you from giving up after spending a lot of yourself in the business.

3) Self-determination: If you wish to conquer the internet marketing world, you must have the power to push yourself ahead. Never having to say ‘I give up’ is a quality each and every internet marketer must have, and the ability to motivate yourself into climbing even greater heights is an ability which would actually take an internet marketer there.

4) Discipline: If you know how to teach yourself to work everyday with all the energy you can muster up, then you are close to reaching what you have set your heart to having in the first place.

5) Optimism: Bad attitudes and hearsay of others should not prevent an internet marketer from going after what you have to in order to make life better for yourself and for everyone involved.

Neither should anyone influence your attitude toward the business, because once in it, it is a must for you to be the captain of your ship and the master of your heart and purpose.

The criteria to success in a business such as internet marketing are diverse and abundant, but the most crucial thing you need to have in order to be able to make it big, lies in yourself alone. It is your desire which fuels your heart; that is the gas which should keep the engine going.

Internet marketing is all about putting your destiny into your own hands. Having the correct attitude is central to being able to direct your ship into that part of the ocean you desire.

To be long-term successful, you MUST have a marketing system for your business that automates many of your day-to-day functions and offers total training on using the internet to build your business. Things like keyword usage and  social networking skills of working with people, so that you get better and better and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.  

So if you’re struggling with your business, considering a career in network marketing or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, please contact me by email at jimburcham44@gmail.com  or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!!

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham

Here is great information on how to recruit more people using a blog. The article was written by Daegan Smith. Here is what he has to say.

One of the biggest mistakes I see people making in their blogging efforts is “why” they use them. Most people tend to think of blogging as a primary traffic generation strategy, and it can be, but it’s not THE best use of a blog in our type of business.

You should think of blog traffic more like icing on the cake. The primary and MOST powerful use of starting and using a blog in your business is it’s ability to create a powerful testimonial for you. Let me explain.

I’ve always found this to be a MUCH better option than cold calling leads. I let them get to know me first.

In other words, a prospect who goes to your blog, because of the content and reads about you, is going to take what they read there at face value, where if you’re on the phone telling them the same thing, they’re most likely to say, “Yeah right.”

If you’ve ever called leads, and had that question come up of, “Well why should I join you?” Having visited your blog first will virtually eliminate this objection and ignite powerful curiosity and intrigue about you and what you do.

Because I had content on the blog, I had tons of people finding it for free, and as a result, calls out of the blue from people saying, “Yeah I found your blog, what’s up with your business?” (kinda cool).

So let me share a few things you can do to improve you search engine rankings for your blog posts to enhance your free traffic.

First, do a little keyword research using the Google Keyword tool. Find a few keywords related to business and use those keywords in your blog title, and a few times, along with a few synonyms for that main keyword in your blog post.

One secret strategy that really increases blog traffic is using images.

On blog posts where an image corresponds to the blog post, keywords  tend to get about double the traffic. So find a few images related to your blog post keyword.

Name those images as your main keyword, for instance if a blog post was based on the keyword “internet network marketing,” then  find three images to use for that keyword and  name the images internet-network-marketing1.jpg, internet-network-marketing2.jpg, internet-network-marketing3.jpg etc.

Search engines rank you based on how many other websites link to your post related to your keywords, so when you create a new blog post, write an article with the same keyword and submit it to the major article directories with a link going back to your main blog post.

Find a few other blogs in the niche and comment on a few posts and link back to your blog post.

Create a facebook, twitter, myspace, squidoo account and post some content based on the keyword and link those back to your blog post.

You do that for your blog and you’re ahead of 99% of marketers.

So now that we’ve got traffic down, let’s talk about $$$, how do you make money with your blog? I think the simplest way to make money with a blog from the outset is to simply add Google Adsense to each blog post, not so much because you’ll make a ton of cash from it, but when people do click on your Google Adsense ads on your blog you’ll make a few bucks which is powerful positive reinforcement for your efforts in the early going.

It will fuel you forward. You’ll see money coming in and you’ll get excited.

The best long-term way to make money with your blog though is…

Integrating your blog with your email marketing efforts. I love using the one-two punch of email marketing and blogging because it allows you to change the dynamic of your email messages to your prospects from a one-way conversation to a two-way conversation by giving your prospects the ability to comment back to you.

Getting people involved and commenting on your blog is a powerful way to build trust. Think of your blog as a conversation and you’ll see the bond between you and your prospects growing stronger daily and for it your income will increase.

There are two powerful benefits of turning your emails into a blog conversation.

The first is simply when people get involved and proactively comment they’ve taken a powerful step into your world. The second benefit is a little more sneaky, but extremely powerful.

Say you send a prospect to your blog to share an important post today and 15 people comment on that post. Great!

Well, what if you take the email that you sent people to your blog and add it to your auto responder?

Now the leads that join your list three months from now will get that email automatically via your autoresponder email sequence you set up and when they get to the post not only are they going to get to participate in a conversation you set up on autopilot, but they’ll also see all the people that previously commented and say…

“Wow! I just got this email and 15 people already commented, there must be a lot of people listening in,” and hence, they will conclude you’re a good teacher and someone a LOT of people listen to.

To be long-term successful, you MUST have a marketing system for your business that automates many of your day-to-day functions and offers total training on using the internet to build your business. Things like keyword usage for your blog and social networking skills of working with people, so that you get better and better and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.  

So if you’re struggling with your business, considering a career in network marketing or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, please contact me by email at jimburcham44@gmail.com  or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!!

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham

Here’s an article written by Jose Siandre entitled: Is Your Prospect Really Just A Quitter?  It may help you be a better recruiter.

On the surface this may seem like a very simple question that could be answered by a few of the obvious reasons…

They quit.
They didn’t plug in.
They didn’t participate.

What you want to ask yourself, or maybe even know about yourself, is WHY…

WHY didn’t they follow through, while others do?

When I finally learned the answer to this question, it was quite sobering…

Not only did the reason behind their results come into the open, but the reason for my recent spat of success became apparent as well.

So what’s the answer?

Why do most people fail when a select few succeed?

Those who do succeed have a core desire to do so.

Those who don’t, share that same core level of desire will not.

“Desire… Just look for people with desire and you’ll do great… Yada Yada Yada… Everyone I talk to has the desire to make more money. It hasn’t made any difference so far.”

The difference is in their level of desire.

The only time anything ever gets done in your life – When you follow it through to completion with a sense of urgency, is when you desire to accomplish that task at Core Level of 100 on a scale of 100.

You must accomplish it. It’s a part of you. It consumes you.

It dominates your thoughts above and beyond anything else each day and all day.

These are core desires, and the people who achieve notable success in network marketing, have that accomplishment as a core desire.

They are the ones you see on stage and hear on the training calls.

That’s it.

That’s the secret.

If attaining your goal, whether it be to pay off your credit cards, buy a house, save for retirement, or fire your boss, is not a core desire, and not attached to your networking business, you will not succeed. Period.

The sad truth, is that most people in this industry did not buy a business, they bought hope.

And hope is never backed by true desire.

Hope is for the undecided.

So that’s why people you sponsor quit.

Don’t get frustrated. 80% of people who join you will never sponsor more than 1 rep or customer. Most people simple don’t have the desire at a level of 100 to accomplish their goals through their new business. They just bought hope in order to quiet that little voice inside them that keeps nagging them to make a change.

Once they buy the business, and they don’t make $1,000 in 5 days, they can then justify their fear of change with the “logic” that it just “didn’t work,” and that they knew it was a scam to begin with… 

So sad, yet so true. People are funny aren’t they?

So my question to you is..

What is your desire level to achieve your goal through network marketing?

What do you do each day to build your business? How many books on the industry do you own? How many conference calls are you on each week? How many people do you talk to about your business/product each day?

What would you be willing to give and sacrifice to succeed?

I hope the answer to that questions is “whatever it takes,” because I can promise you the end result is worth the sacrifice.

So how can you tell if your prospect is going to succeed or fail from the very first phone call?

Ask them this question: “So which books are you currently reading on self-development and marketing?”

Anyone who is TRULY serious about being a successful entrepreneur will be able to name at least one book they are reading right now.

My suggestion is that you change your mindset today and get involved. Take responsibility for your personal success and set aside the excuses that have kept you in that JOB for so many years.

Start increasing your value to the world by increasing your knowledge and abilities.

Only then will the world be willing to pay you back with freedom and wealth.

To be long-term successful, you MUST have a marketing system for your business that automates many of your day-to-day functions and offers total training on using the internet to build your business. Things like keyword usage and  social networking skills of working with people, so that you get better and better and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.   

So if you’re struggling with your business, considering a career in network marketing or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, please contact me by email at jimburcham44@gmail.com  or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!!

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham   

Have you been taught how to conduct follow-up calls in network marketing?

Follow up is one of the most important elements that leads to success in any business.

In network marketing follow up is critically important.

People often think that network marketing is simply about “sharing” information with others, when in all reality it is a marketing business. While information is shared, as in any marketing situation,  it requires follow up.

People are often confused as to exactly how to conduct a follow-up call in network marketing. Let me set the record straight and tell you exactly how it is done.

First of all, you MUST follow up if you ever expect success in the network marketing.

Business comes to those who seek it, not those who wait for it. So the first rule is that you DO follow up. Don’t sit around waiting for the business to come to you. Go GET the business.

The key word in the title of this article is conduct .Think about the conductor of a band, he listens to the music the band is playing and makes subtle adjustments to make sure it comes out right and that’s what you should do on follow-up calls. 

  Here are some simple tips for conducting an effective follow-up call in network marketing:

- Book a firm appointment ahead of time.
- Ask your prospect if he/she reviewed the information that you directed them to.
- Ask them what they thought about the info and LISTEN CAREFULLY FOR CLUES THAT WILL HELP YOU CLOSE THE DEAL.
- Answer any questions you can.
- Bring in an upline leader for support.
- ASK for the business.
- Don’t chase them. If they are interested, you’ll know it through their actions.

The most important tip I can give you is to not do all of the talking shut up and listen. If you listen well and follow these simple tips, you will find yourself closing more business in anything you’re involved in especially network marketing.

If you are struggling in your business, or considering a career in network marketing, or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, email me at jimburcham44@gmail.com or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started “Today!!”

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham

Yes it’s true that 95% of Network Marketers Fail. 

“But Those That Stay Will Be Champions!”

That  famous line from Bo Schembeckler hangs in the University of Michigan football team  locker room still today. Bo had a system and those that stayed and learned his system beat Ohio State the first year and became champions of the Big Ten, the Rose Bowl and later in life.

Most network marketers don’t learn the tools needed to succeed… they’re never taught a simple system that’s needed to be successful.

There is some amazingly effective marketing potential right in front of you, right now.

In fact, you probably didn’t even know you could make money in your business online while you build it.

Lead generating systems and affiliate advertising can pay you as you build your business.

While you generate leads using online marketing systems, you get paid to help other business owners build their business.

I’m not telling you your old methods are wrong or bad.

They’re just slow.

For you to make enough cash flow to continue marketing you must keep reps in your organization more than 90 days.

To do that you need to have a system that teaches them how to take the massive action necessary to be successful.

A marketing system is ridiculously powerful.

You provide your prospects access to helpful tools, by which you are positioning yourself as a leader… 

And since people join people who can lead… they become your prospects for your business!

Having a replicatable system your reps can copy, that puts money in their pockets and adds leads to their sales funnel and the number of reps who stay with you rises exponentially.

I love the system I use because it offers total training in the skills of working with people, so that you get better and better and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.

If you want to build your business or are considering a new career, contact me.  I want you to see how far we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!! Just fill in the info on the right or contact me at 734-453-9640. or email me at jimburcham44@gmail.com

Here is a great article entitled: The One Home Business Online Strategy That Works

Many people are taught by their sponsor to recruit their friends and family in their initial attempt to build their home-based business. Then they try to take their business online when their “warm list” runs out and they realize they will need to talk to many more people than they currently know to build a successful home-based business.

Most people think they simply start a membership with a social media site and make friends or connections and send out their business link. Since everyone wants to make money and the offer is so great, it will be a cinch to sign people up. Then when it doesn’t work they think there must be some big secret.

You can be successful on the social media sites, as well as many other strategies for generating leads for your business online, and there is no secret. In fact, it is really easy if you know what you are doing. You just have to realize that this is a business and there has never been a business of any type that someone can succeed at unless they know what they are doing.

The good news is anyone can learn how to be successful in the network marketing business. Since you are in the marketing business, you will have to know how to market before you have a chance of success. You also would save a lot of time and trouble if you were to use the same business model that EVERY income-leading Internet marketer uses.

It is a simple three-step process that is taught as the foundation of attraction marketing. Not only do all top earners use it to generate leads for their primary business, but it also gives them the ability to make money from the leads that don’t join them in their business. They also are able to continually follow up with those leads and build a relationship which could cause the prospect to join them when the timing is right for them.

The process is simply this: build a list of interested prospects, build a relationship with those on the list using a series of emails that are preprogrammed into an autoresponder and emails that are broadcasted out periodically and monetize the list by promoting products and services that are effective business building tools.

The reason this works is because your ads, articles, videos or whatever, target the prospects you want, so all those on your list are from a specific group. Then your email messages are loaded with valuable information which helps those on your list and that causes your prospects to like and to trust you. When that happens, they will be ready to do business with you.

That is how it works and how all the top marketers do business online. They use high-converting lead capture pages to drive traffic to those sites. Since the landscape of the Internet is an ever-changing environment, it is an ongoing process. Every income leader has a full library of training material and spends money every month on their personal training.

Anyone in this industry who is not willing to spend money on their personal training will have a short career that ends in failure and frustration. Those who are just starting out can at least go pick up a book at a library or buy and download an eBook. All you have to get is one great idea or insight for it to have been worth every penny.

I have always been amazed by how many companies out there that do not train their distributors how to use the Internet to grow their business, but what is even more amazing is how many people out there who try to build their business using the Internet using the same ineffective tactics they used on their friends and family offline. You would think they would have learned that if those tactics were ineffective on their friends, then they will never work on their online connections.

Here is a great article entitled: Social Media Do’s And Don’t’s.

The article was originally written by Tommy DiPirtro.

Social Media can be a great way to grow your network marketing business. It doesn’t matter which type of Social Media you are using whether it is Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace —  there are many different networks to choose from.

No matter which type of Social Media you choose, remember your online personality is not only part of your overall brand, it becomes an interactive experience for you and your business.

There are different combinations that you can use to make your online presence known. Here is a list of some Do’s and Don’ts of Social Media to help promote yourself and cut your overall time online.

When one minute turns into one hour and BEYOND…
Have you ever checked your Facebook account and before you know it you’ve spent the past three hours playing Bejeweled? You need to focus on using it to build your business NOT playing games and wasting time.

You should use your time building up your profile, creating your fan page and building relationships with other network marketers.

DON’T spend all your time doing everything that you never planned on doing, that includes getting caught up with all the applications that just cause distractions.

DO make connections with people in your niche, this will help you build a STRONG social network. It’s a great opportunity to learn from others around you, especially the heavy hitters in your industry. It also gives you a chance to socialize with others and not make it look like you’re always trying to MAKE A DEAL or SELL SOMETHING.

DON’T forget about the other person. There are many times when you would make a connection and right away not take the time to get to know that person. You should learn about the person you are connecting with. This is something you can do by: Reading their profile, it is important to learn about them. Writing something on their wall. Take the time to make a video introduction. You don’t want to spam others’ walls with advertising yourself. DO remember there are people around. SO…be careful what you write on people’s walls, pictures that you are posting and the groups you are joining. You don’t want the wrong information out there, it can damage your reputation.

YOU CAN make your profile private, but that really defeats the purpose of using Social Media. It is extremely important to consider what you should and shouldn’t do when using Social Media to build your network marketing business. The main idea is to continue using your current methods and slowly incorporate your Facebook and Twitter tactics.

And remember…YOU control what you will share in your account, it can make a HUGE difference in your business when promoting yourself and in spending your time wisely.

If you’re struggling with your business, considering a career in network marketing or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, please contact me by email at jimburcham44@gmail.com  or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!!

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham

This is excellent information on SEO Marketing Basics. The article was written by Ana Hoffman. As you know, I try to bring you information that will increase your business building skills.

Optimizing your website in a way that makes it more attractive to search engines is a great way to exponentially increase your  lead generation.

Mind you, that the traffic we are talking about here is absolutely FREE.

So, let’s start with the basics. What on earth is SEO ?

SEO is an anagram standing for “Search Engine Optimization.”

Your basic strategy here is to have your business sites rank as high as possible on Google and other search engines, thus bringing great quality leads to your website.

In other words, if an Internet surfer searches for ‘Work At Home’ in Google, a website that has been optimized for that topic or even that exact phrase will probably be ranked higher in search results than a website that has not been optimized.

We call website visits that result from search engines ‘organic traffic’ because you don’t have to pay for these visitors.

#1. KEYWORD:
To start optimizing your opportunity website, you need to understand the concept of keywords.

The term KEYWORD refers to the exact word or phrase that people are searching for. Your keyword can be short (one word) or contain several words that specify the kind of information a web user is looking for.

In other words, it can be anything.

The point here is the more often your website mentions or is connected to (explained later) a specific keyword, the more likely it is to show up in the search engine results for those keywords.

#2. BACKLINK:
The next crucial part of SEO we need to talk about is called a backlink.

‘BACKLINK’ is one of the measurements that the search engines use to see how important or insightful your website content really is.
For example, if any website includes this kind of link in their content Your Net Biz and that link leads the visitors back to my website, that’s a backlink. The thinking behind it is the better and the more valuable information you provide on your website, the more website masters will want to link to it.

Wikipedia website ranks very high on many topics because many sites quote it as a source in their content.

Your goal is to become “Wikipedia” website in your field and get as many websites to link to yours as you can, thus causing it to rank higher for your keywords and helping your lead generation tremendously.

#3. RECIPROCAL LINK:
Yet another important SEO principal for your business is called the reciprocal link.

A RECIPROCAL LINK is created when two similar in content websites mutually link to each other.
Reciprocal links are much easier to get than backlinks and many business website owners use this tactic for their SEO.

Unfortunately, although important, reciprocal links will not get you too far with the search engines, since it is so easy to get them.

So, keywords, backlinks, and reciprocal links are really the major concepts you need to pay attention to when optimizing your business site.

Of course, this is only the tip of the SEO iceberg.

However, if you want to save thousands of advertising dollars and drive targeted  leads to your website, it’s certainly worth the trouble!

To be long-term successful, you MUST have a marketing system for your business that automates many of your day-to-day functions so you can have massive action. One that offers total training on using the Internet to build your business. Things like keyword usage and  social networking skills of working with people, so that you get better and better and your people can plug into exactly the same system, making it far easier for you to help them.

So if you’re struggling with your business, considering a career in network marketing or just looking for a rock-solid company to work with, please contact me by email at jimburcham44@gmail.com or call 734-453-9640. I want you to see what lengths we will go to help assure your success. Never forget the fact, that in Network Marketing, my success will always depend on your success. Take action and get started Today!!

Here’s To Your Success, Jim Burcham